Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Stocking the blacks and whites

I go through a lot of black and white fabric, so I've been building my stash back up with some handpainted ones.

Mostly I use the Jacquard Textile paints, but I ran out of the white, so I used Golden's fluid acrylic in its place. It worked pretty well, but it does have a slightly stiffer hand when it dried. Fine for machine work but I wouldn't want to hand stitch through it.

I like to do a lot of rough writing both big and small, legible and not.

And just fast and crazy so it's all a little messy.

This was one of my favorite pieces made by dipping the Jacquard lid in white paint and printing with it 4 or 5 times.

I've never heard of ormoline and haven't mixed in textile medium either, but I will try both of those things--thanks for the tips. The Jacquard has a pretty soft hand, but I'm wondering if mixing in a little of those will make it even better. I'll let you know if it works.